Having done so, he covered the ground more slowly, as though inviting attention to detail.

Adam was a willing and attentive pupil, and followed his motions exactly, missing--or trying to miss--nothing.
"I have brought you here, Adam, because it seems to me that this is the spot on which to begin our investigations.

You have now in front of you almost the whole of the ancient kingdom of Mercia.

In fact, we see the whole of it except that furthest part, which is covered by the Welsh Marches and those parts which are hidden from where we stand by the high ground of the immediate west.

We can see--theoretically--the whole of the eastern bound of the kingdom, which ran south from the Humber to the Wash.